110, Lot: 64. Estimate $75. Sold for $158. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy VI Philometor and Eulaeos, Regent. 180-145 BC. Æ 26mm (14.08 gm). Salamis on Cyprus mint. Struck 176-170 BC. Diademed head of Zeus-Ammon right / Eagle standing on thunderbolt left; lotus to left, EUL between legs; c/m: Seleukid anchor. Weiser 152; Svoronos 1398; SNG Copenhagen 294. Near VF, black patina, surfaces a touch rouh.

The name PTOLEMAIOU has been deliberately effaced and the Seleukid countermark applied during the the attempt of Antiochos IV to incorporate Ptolemaic Egypt and Cyprus into the Seleukid Empire (170-168 BC).